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  • THE FIELDS OF DEATH
    THE FIELDS OF DEATH
    SIMON SCARROW
    THE FIELDS OF DEATH is the epic final novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon Quartet. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell.1809. Viscount Wellington and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte have made their mark as military commanders. Lifelong enemies, they both believe their armies are strong enough to destroy any rival. But in war victory can never be ce...
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  • BOOTH
    BOOTH
    KAREN JOY FOWLER
    Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising talent and a man of terrifying instability. As his children grow up in a remote farmstead in 1830s rural Baltimore, the country draws ever closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. Of the six Booth siblings who survive to adulthood, each has their own d...
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  • THE BODY SNATCHERS
    THE BODY SNATCHERS
    JACK FINNEY
    When Becky Driscoll turns up at Dr Miles Bennell's consulting room after hours one August evening and tells him that her cousin Wilma doesn't think that her Uncle Ira is really her Uncle Ira, it is just the beginning of a nightmare. As the number of similar stories multiplies, Miles discovers the horrific truth. ...
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  • DO NO HARM
    DO NO HARM
    HENRY MARSH
    What is it really like to be a brain surgeon, to hold someone's life in your hands, to drill down into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially life-saving operation when it all goes wrong? In this powerful, gripping and brutally honest account, one of the country's top neurosurgeons reveals what it is...
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  • THE NINE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
    THE NINE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
    MATTHEW RESTALL
    Christopher Columbus was born Cristoforo Colombo, in the autumn of 1451 in the Mediterranean port city of Genoa, and he died in the Spanish city of Valladolid in May 1506, as don Cristóbal Colón. More than five centuries later, we are still arguing over his life and its significance. Millions if not billions of people have learned his name. Most have some sense of what he did, ...
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  • UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN
    UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN
    SUSAN SONTAG
    Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as a dazzling an...
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  • TOWER OF DAWN
    TOWER OF DAWN
    SARAH J. MAAS
    'One of the best fantasy book series of the past decade' TIMEA glorious empire. A desperate quest. An ancient secret. The search for allies extends to a new land in the sixth book of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. Chaol Westfall and Nesryn Faliq have arrived in the shining city of Antica to forge an alliance with the Khagan of the Southern Continent...
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  • PEARSON BACCALAUREATE HISTORY PAPER 3: EUROPEAN STATES IN THE INTER-WAR YEARS (1918-1939)
    PEARSON BACCALAUREATE HISTORY PAPER 3: EUROPEAN STATES IN THE INTER-WAR YEARS (1918-1939)
    KEELY ROGERS / JO THOMAS
    Our latest titles offer specific support for Paper 3 of the 2015 History curriculum. Each textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the appropriate topics, equipping students with the knowledge and skills needed to successfully answer essay questions on Paper Three. Written and developed by experienced IB teachers, who also have experience in examining and leading workshops, ...
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    41,70 €

  • BETWEEN TWO KINGS
    BETWEEN TWO KINGS
    LINDSAY. STRAUBE
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    21,25 €

  • THE TOWER OF NERO (THE TRIALS OF APOLLO BOOK 5)
    THE TOWER OF NERO (THE TRIALS OF APOLLO BOOK 5)
    RICK RIORDAN
    It's time to face the final trial . . . The battle for Camp Jupiter is over. New Rome is safe. Tarquin and his army of the undead have been defeated. Somehow Apollo has made it out alive, with a little bit of help from the Hunters of Artemis. But though the battle may have been won, the war is far from over. Now Apollo and Meg must get ready for the final - and, let's face i...
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  • THE REPTILE ROOM
    THE REPTILE ROOM
    LEMONY SNICKET
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    11,25 €

  • REDSHIRTS
    REDSHIRTS
    JOHN SCALZI
    Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, and Andrew is even more delighted when he's assigned to the ship's xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn't be better - although there are a few strange things going on ...
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  • THE GREAT GATSBY
    THE GREAT GATSBY
    F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
    'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life'Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debati...
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  • ILLUSTRATED ISTANBUL
    ILLUSTRATED ISTANBUL
    ORHAN PAMUK
    Since the publication of Istanbul: Memories of a City, Orhan Pamuk has continued to add to his collection of photographs of Istanbul. Now, he has selected a range of photographs for the illustrated edition, linking each new image to his memoir. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His port...
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    37,50 €

  • PLATO
    PLATO
    JULIA ANNAS / REGENTS PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY JULIA ANNAS
    This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. This is not a book to leave the reader standing in the outer court of introduction and background information, but leads directly into Plato's argument. It looks at Plato as a th...
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  • THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK
    THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    The stories in this collection from Orange-Prize winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie straddle the cultures of Nigeria and the West. Her characters battle with the responsibilities of modern life, a world in which identity is too often compromised. ...
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  • MEDICAL MILESTONES AND CRAZY CURES
    MEDICAL MILESTONES AND CRAZY CURES
    CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN / XAND VAN TULLEKEN
    Think you know your smallpox from your bubonic plague? What did the Ancient Egyptians treat with powdered ostrich egg? How did body snatchers help 19th-century medical students? Why did the Ancient Romans recommend drinking wee? Dive in and find out the answers to these questions and many others as Dr Chris and Dr Xand draw back the bed curtains of history to take you on a tour...
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    8,75 €

  • TREASURE ISLAND
    TREASURE ISLAND
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf. This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold separately)....
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  • THE STORY OF ART - 16TH EDITION
    THE STORY OF ART - 16TH EDITION
    E.H. GOMBRICH / ERNST HANS GOMBRICH
    Introduction: On Art and Artists 1 Strange Beginnings: Prehistoric and Primitive Peoples; Ancient America 2 Art for Eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete 3 The Great Awakening: Greece, Seventh to Fifth Century BC 4 The Realm of Beauty: Greece and the Greek World, Fourth Century BC to First Century AD 5 World Conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, First to Fourth Cent...
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    43,70 €

  • DEAR DOLLY
    DEAR DOLLY
    DOLLY ALDERTON
    Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions range from the painfully - and sometimes hilariously - relatable to the occasionally bizarre. They include breakups and body issues, families, friendships, dating, divorce, the p...
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    13,75 €

  • HOUSE OF FLAME AND SHADOW
    HOUSE OF FLAME AND SHADOW
    SARAH J. MAAS
    The stunning third book in the sexy, action-packed Crescent City series, following the global bestsellers House of Earth and Blood and House of Sky and Breath. Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world,...
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  • MAGNOLIA PARKS: INTO THE DARK
    MAGNOLIA PARKS: INTO THE DARK
    JESSA HASTINGS
    *ORIGINAL COVER COLLECTION EDITION* Book five in the sensational Magnolia Parks Universe series! How many loves do you actually get in a lifetime? Everyone knows by now that Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are in the stars, but is that enough? Magnolia and BJ are reeling from a devastating loss as they try to plan what's been dubbed 'the wedding of the century'. As family t...
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  • AN EDUCATION IN MALICE
    AN EDUCATION IN MALICE
    S.T. GIBSON
    'A delectable jewel of a tale, shimmering with dark, beautiful prose' Tori Bovalino, author of The Devil Makes Three, on A Dowry of BloodLove is sacrifice. One of us was always going to bleed for the other.Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua's College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is...
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  • THE FALL OF ICARUS
    THE FALL OF ICARUS
    OVID
    'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...' Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books fr...
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  • THERE AND BACK
    THERE AND BACK
    MICHAEL PALIN
    "A new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing his confidence, doubts creeping in about his abilities as a writer, the death of his great friend George Harrison and the last of his children leaving home, the dawn of the twenty-first century sees Michael at his most reflective yet. Over the next ten years, we watch through...
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  • STAR TREK: THE WISDOM OF PICARD
    STAR TREK: THE WISDOM OF PICARD
    CHIP CARTER
    Discover all of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's sage advice, insight, and wisdom from the deck of the U.S.S. Enterprise and beyond in this ultimate collection of wise words from the esteemed Starfleet captain.Any Star Trek fan knows that Captain Jean-Luc Picard is renowned for his impressive oratory skills, preferring negotiation and diplomacy over violence and destruction. Now, you ...
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  • THE LAST OF THE HIGH KINGS
    THE LAST OF THE HIGH KINGS
    KATE THOMPSON
    JJ Liddy sometimes blames his unreliable temperament on the visit he made to Tir na n'Og, the land of eternal youth, when he was fifteen years old. It's perhaps not surprising that his children have also turned out to be a little eccentric, especially eleven-year-old Jenny. She forgets to go to school, can't bear to wear shoes, and spends entire days roaming the mountainside. I...
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  • HUMAN ACTS
    HUMAN ACTS
    KANG HAN
    Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma. Hu...
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  • LOST ENLIGHTENMENT
    LOST ENLIGHTENMENT
    S. FREDERICK STARR
    The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacyIn this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds—remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern wor...
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    23,75 €

  • QUEEN MACBETH
    QUEEN MACBETH
    VAL MCDERMID
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